Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.

-William Feather

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within our control and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to ( Read more... )

Yep.

30 years old today.

To everyone who has been a part of my life:

Thank you. You probably do not know the many ways that you have touched me and those in my family. You have changed me. Some for the better, some for the worse, but all of you have made an impact of some kind.

Here's to having the next 30 years continue with health and happiness!

The NY Times doesn't often get it right, but this article does have moments where it rings true.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24tsingloh.html

As of today, I am a Registered Nurse!

I passed my NCLEX!

I have a job, my dream job, at my dream hospital.

Life is freakin' awesome.

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This song has meant more to me over the years than I can say. Song of the day.



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Today we celebrate our independence from the British.

I think it is important to remember these passages:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of ( Read more... )

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

- Saadi

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

- John Brown

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. - Michel ( Read more... )